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giR _ House of Commons, March 31st, 1855. I beg to acknowledge the resolutions and copies of petitions wbich you have' done me the honour to send me. The former expressed the wish of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, that I should be authorised to represent their views and interests in an attempt at a more satisfactory arrangement at home, of questions relating to the New Zealand Company's Debt, and further that I should be furnished with means to defray any necessary le e al exnense* in so doing. 1 Your letter stated that I might expect further communications to be transmitted to Hie through the medium of Colonel Wynyard, the acting Governor of the colony. I have however received no such communication up to the present date and I therefore do not feel myself as yet authorised to take any step, even in the' way of consulting with those who represent the Government or the Company I will not, however, lose the opportunity of this post to acknowledge your letter, and to say, that though I do not see much prospect of that sort of composition being made with the Company which seems the sole remaining mode of arriving at such an arrangement, yet, if any such authority is placed in my hands, I shall be happy to take any trouble, without raising legal questions, which are rendered impracticable by the over-riding clause of the Constitution Act, to test the possibility of such an amicable settlement, and to acquaint you with the result. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, C. B. Adderley. To the Honourable The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Travers, with leave of the House, moved the adoption of the following Resoution :— " That the House has learnt with regret that the Resolutions of this House on the subject of the New Zealand Company's Debt, passed on the 16th -September, 1854, should not have reached Mr. Adderley through the proper official channels, seeing how important it was for the interests of the colony, that he should have received official intimation of the views of this House at the earliest possible moment, and this House trusts that those Resolutions, together with the further Resolutions of the House of the 13th of September, 1855, will be transmitted to Mr. Adderley, without delay. "And that a respectful address be presented to His Excellency the Governor embodying the foregoing Resolution" :— Question put and passed. The Speaker announced to the House that a Member had asserted that it was not the intention of the House that the sum of £300, voted for the expenses of Members, should be appropriated in the same manner as the sum voted for the same purpose last year, arid he wished to take the sense of the House upon the subject. Moved by Mr. Forsaith—That the sum of £300, voted this session for the expenses of Members be divided in equal shares amongst all those Members ■who, on account of their public duties, were compelled to leave their usual places of abode during the session Amendment moved by Merriman—That all the words of the foregoing question be omitted, with a view to insert the following, in lieu thereof, —that the sum of £300 placed on the Estimates for the expenses of Members be apportioned as follows—the Members from the fiiouihern Provinces 11 per diem, the balance to be equally divided amongst those Members of the Province of Auckland, who are entitled to an allowance. Question —that the words proposed to be omitted do stand part of the ques tion—put and passed.